Sam Bennett pinch-hit for shortstop Wallace to open the inning, and broke up the no-hitter with a single. Rain prevented the second game from being played.24, In the original NNL schedule, St. Louis was to host the Chicago Giants June 11-15, but it appears the Chicago team may have backed out of those games. And Harry St. Clair, a local businessman, who regularly appeared in the local newspapers because of his involvement with gambling in Kansas City.2, On day two of the two-day meeting, it was announced that the Dayton Marcos would leave the Negro National League and be replaced by a team in nearby Columbus and become the Columbus Buckeyes. On Monday, July 11, St. Louis won 10-3, with Charleston hitting two home runs. Outfielders Reid and Charley Hill were very weak links in the otherwise solid lineup, with both hitting less than .200 with no power. Seamheads.com. Luther Farrell got the win for the Giants, allowing just four hits, walking three and striking out two. The team moved into a new ballpark, called Giants Park (different from the previous Kuebler’s/Giants Park), at the corner of Pope and Prescott Avenues, just a block from Kuebler’s Park.4 Overall, Giants Park slightly favored hitters over pitchers. Found insideDr. W. E. B. Du Bois estimated that 250,000 Negroes had migrated to the North during 1916-17.466 The estimate of the Colored Citizens' Patriotic League was 300,000,467 and that of the Chairman of the National League on Urban Conditions ... They went on to lose the series finale. Ultimately, KC edged Detroit 6-5 in 10 innings, despite Petway’s heroics – 3-for-5 with two triples and a steal of home for the Stars.26. appears here. Early in his career, he was one of the first Black reporters to cover the crime beat, focusing on news of the police department and the courts. Kevin Johnson, Bob McConnell, Jack Morris, and Ray Nemec, as well as members of He quickly became the ace of Rube Foster’s Leland Giants. Found inside – Page 752nd 2 1920 - Negro Baseball First game League . Negro National League franchises . Annual final standings : 1920 , 1921 , 1922 , 1923 , 1924 , 1925 , 1926 , 1927 , 1928 , 1929 , 1930 , 1931. Chicago American Giants ( 1920–1931 ) – Known ... They improved to 50-34 in league play and 63-42 overall under manager Ben Taylor in 1922.20. change. Colored Departmental Baseball League 1922-1923. The final games of 1921 came in a six-game barnstorming tour against the Cleveland Tate Stars. In 1921 the Columbus Buckeyes and Cincinnati Cuban Stars took the place of the Dayton Marcos and Cuban Stars West in the league. The Negro World Series was a post-season baseball tournament that was held from 1924 to 1927 and from 1942 to 1948 between the champions of the Negro leagues, matching the mid-western winners against their east-coast counterparts. Colorado-Texas-Oklahoma Baseball League 1919. For a road game at St. Louis on August 1, the Globe-Democrat wrote, “The St. Louis Giants won the second game of the series from the Chicago Giants yesterday by a 12-to-7 score. 7 Pete Palmer et al., eds., The ESPN Pro Football Encyclopedia, second edition (New York: Sterling Publishing, 2007), 1509. Louis Stars Claim Pennant,” St. Louis Argus, September 26, 1930. After that series, the St. Louis Giants played six straight with the American Giants, the first in Gary, Indiana, won by the American Giants 16-4, a doubleheader back at Schorling Field that the American Giants swept, and the final three in St. Louis, all won by the home team. On Monday the Monarchs won 21-7, pounding out 26 hits.13 Oscar Charleston came in from the outfield to mop up the last four innings, and gave up four runs on nine hits. A week later, the Pittsburgh Press wrote, “Keystone and Chicago Giants played an 8 to 8 draw in a hard fought game.”11 Hap Allen had three hits, including a double, for the Keystones, while Lemuel Hawkins had for hits for Chicago. The Stars annually brought their team from Cuba, playing their “winter” season in the US Negro Leagues, usually as a traveling team. Harry Jeffries (stolen base), Jenkins (double), Harry Bachman (double, stolen base), and Ollie Byrd all had two hits for Chicago in the win. dataset (The Negro Leagues Database) are all copyright 2013 by Gary The top hitter on the team was Dobie Moore, with a .324 batting average (.355 OBP) and a .921 OPS. The Giants opened their home season on Sunday, May 8, with a 9-0 win vs. the Chicago Giants. Conrad Kuebler, who owned a ballpark at Prescott and Pope Avenues, was the team owner. Oscar Charleston was known as “the Black Ty Cobb.” Both men sprayed line drives to all fields and played a savage running game on the bases. The Buckeyes hit the road for four games in Chicago against the Chicago American Giants and then went to Detroit for a five-game series with the Detroit Stars. The Buckeyes swept a five-game series against the Cleveland Tate Stars, then followed with a doubleheader sweep of the Indianapolis ABCs. The American Giants’ rallies included six successive squeeze plays, as well as grand slams by Torriente and Dixon.5. That year, Rube Foster of Chicago created the Negro National League. On Thursday John Finner pitched a one-hit, 6-0 shutout. As new credible The Cuban Stars returned to being a road team for the rest of their league play, since staying in one place had not helped their overall standing. The Giants were a founding member of the Negro National League. The team concluded with three games against the Dallas Stars at Mack Park in Detroit; the ABCs finished their Negro National League season by winning all three. While a solid team most years, the Stars were not able to ascend to the top of the standings until 1928. 60 “Colored Leaguers in Double-Header Today,” Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, September 17, 1921: 10. On Tuesday Chicago won 9-6 despite four hits and four runs scored by Dudley. Louis, 3; Am. Charleston had the first of many great days this season – he went 4-for-5 with two home runs. But this was the last time they sat in first place. They played four against the Columbus Buckeyes, three at Washington Park and one at Lebanon Field. On Friday afternoon, the largest crowd of the series turned out to see St. Louis rally for three runs in the seventh inning and win 7-6.22. Since joining the Buckeyes from the New York Lincoln Giants, Rile had thrown a one-hitter against Indianapolis, and also won both games of a doubleheader against the Chicago Giants.19. “Stars Losers at Kansas City,” Detroit Free Press, July 26, 1921: 18. Found inside – Page 21The Columbus Buckeyes joined the Negro National League and folded in 1921 , followed by the Pittsburgh Keystones ( 1922 ) , Cleveland Tate Stars ( 1922 ) , Milwaukee Bears ( 1923 ) , Toledo Tigers ( 1923 ) , and Cleveland Browns ( 1924 ) ... The Stars then scored five times while Chicago came back with four runs of their own and then another run in the bottom of the sixth inning to tie the game 8-8. When the Stars finally opened their league schedule at the end of May, they began with a bang by sweeping the doormat road team Chicago Giants in a five-game series at Mack Park. The expense of upgrading the park in 1919 would ultimately contribute to the demise of the Giants (sued for payment related to the remodeling in 1921), replaced in 1922 by the St. Louis Stars, who had Black ownership with enough capital to build team-owned Stars Park by mid-1922. In the top of the seventh inning the Cuban Stars went ahead 9-8 and held on for the victory. From 1911 through 1913 they played at Schorling Park in Chicago (the former South Side Park and home to the major-league Chicago White Sox). 11 “Costlier of 2 Plots Chosen,” Detroit Free Press, September 30, 1921. 4 Gary Ashwill, “Giants Park, St. Louis 1919-1922,” www.agatetype.typepad.com, accessed February 3, 2021. In a nonleague series with the crosstown Kansas City Blues, they added three players from the Buckeyes to replace the injured players: Lloyd, Rile, and Frank Warfield from the Buckeyes.20. 19 “Giants Win Two of First Three from Columbus,” St. Louis Argus, May 20, 1921: 12. Beginning with the final two games of their series with the Cuban Stars, they won 12 of their first 13 league games in the month, sweeping the Buckeyes in four straight, the Indianapolis ABCs also in four, and the Chicago Giants in a short two-game series. Wednesday’s game was won 14-9 by Detroit, with veteran Pete Hill going 5-for-6.36 The final game of the series, on Thursday, saw Charleston get four hits, but it wasn’t enough; Detroit prevailed, 3-1.37, After two offdays, the Giants played the Cuban Stars for the first time in the season on Sunday, July 24. 5 “New Players with A.B.C.s Will Cause Infield Shakeup,” Indianapolis Star, April 10, 1921: 35. As might be expected, the Giants struggled to a sixth-place finish in the eight-team league in 1920. Register now to join us for the virtual SABR/IWBC conference September 10-12, 2021. “He became manager of the Kansas City Monarchs in 1942 and that team swept the Homestead Grays in the World Series. The most common St. Louis lineup was: Sam Mongin left to join the Bacharach Giants the last two months of the season and was replaced by 20-year-old George Scales at third base, batting seventh, with McAdoo moving up to the number-two batting order spot. Under the direction of Larry Lester, Wayne Stivers and Dick Clark, St. Louis came back Tuesday for a 5-1 victory. The Indianapolis Star wrote of a July 10 game, “[T]he A.B.C.s and the Chicago Giants divided a twin bill at Washington Park in Indianapolis yesterday, the invaders taking the first, a pitcher’s duel between Johnson and Taylor, 2 to 1, and the A.B.C.s salting the second away by a 9 to 5 count.”8 The first game was scoreless until Chicago scored twice in the bottom of the seventh inning. Much of the play-by-play, game results, and transaction information both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. 7 “Cuban Stars Take Close Game from Giants, 3 to 2,” Chicago Tribune, June 3, 1921: 16; “Cubans Retain Lead,” Cincinnati Commercial Tribune, June 3, 1921: 6; “Another for Cubans,” Cincinnati Commercial Tribune, June 15, 1921: 6; “Cuban Stars Win,” Cincinnati Enquirer, June 15, 1921: 14; “Monarchs in Second Place,” Kansas City Kansan, June 9, 1921: 7; “Odd Game to Monarchs,” Kansas City Kansan, June 16, 1921: 9; “Monarchs Wallop Cubans,” Kansas City Kansan, July 31, 1921: 14. Found inside... (1918) and the Detroit Stars (1919), before joining Wilkinson's new Kansas City Monarchs team in the brand new Negro National League in 1920. ... In the 1921 Negro League World Series against Hilldale, Mendez got his second wind. This article would not have been possible except for the work of the Seamheads.com website (seamheads.com), especially Kevin Johnson, who provided game results for all NNL games. Oscar Charleston had four hits. this database is the largest dataset ever made publically available The team hit the road for two games with the Columbus Buckeyes, losing both. The Negro National League also made it as far West as Kansas City. 46 “Giants Lose Sensational Game to Chi.,” St. Louis Argus, August 19, 1921: 12. Some high school data is courtesy David McWater. on Sunday,” Michigan Chronicle, April 4, 1964. On the same day, the team started a stretch of six straight home games, winning all by sweeping three from the Buckeyes, taking a single win against the Cuban Stars, and winning two from the St. Louis Giants. During that period he also played with the Havana Stars (1917) and the Chicago American Giants (1922-1923). (Normally, Black fans had to sit in the right-field pavilion seats for Cardinals and Browns games. Suarez and Leblanc pitched complete-game victories.10. 3 Russ J. Cowans, “Everybody Went to Mack Pk. Fortunately for them, most of the NNL teams were able to at least consistently lease a park, allowing them to schedule regular league games instead of having to barnstorm or play at various neutral sites. 15 William J. Plott, The Negro Southern League: A Baseball History, 1920-1951 (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2015), 23. Museum would like to acknowledge Major League Baseball for funding The previous fall, a group of St. Louis Cardinals led by Milt Stock had played a four-game series against the Giants. In addition to the game story and box-score sources cited in the Notes, the author consulted the Seamheads.com and DollarTimes.com websites and the following publications: “Crippled A.B.C.’s Lose Another to K.C. Bench: OF/1B/3B/P – Sidney Brooks; C – Sam Bennett; SS (and manager) – Dick Wallace. Player stats include league games, interleague games (against major Negro League competition), and games against select top-level independent Black Baseball teams. 23 “Monarchs Win Again,” Kansas City Kansan, July 25, 1921. Torriente’s bases-loaded double helped put the American Giants back in front on September 5 with an 8-2 victory and they won the next three games as well, helped by the Monarchs’ six errors in two of the games to effectively win the pennant. Next came the Kansas City Monarchs, one of the strongest teams in the league, for a four-game series beginning Saturday, May 21. The Columbus Buckeyes replaced the Dayton Marcos in the NNL for 1922, and part of the reason was access to a better ballpark. 1921 National League. The Monarchs later became the first professional baseball team to use a portable lighting system, which was transported from game to game in trucks. This biography traces the hard life and colorful career of "Iron Man" McGinnity from his childhood working the coalfields of Illinois to his death in 1929. By this time the American Giants had pulled ahead of Kansas City in the standings, and had been declared league champions. Colored Departmental Baseball League 1912. George Dixon and Jim Brown split the catching duties. While there is no documentation on the price of admission, it was reported by the Saskatoon Daily Star that the gate brought in more than an astounding $24,000. Louis Giants Beat Belleville B’s, 12 to 3,” St. Louis Globe-Democrat, August 29, 1921: 6. The first game of the series was played on Monday, October 3. Subscribe to our Free Newsletter, This Month in Sports ReferenceFind out when we add a feature or make a change. They had finished last in the league in 1920 and would finish last again in 1921. 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